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Make it easy for others to find your Publications
Jochen Bihn
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People will search for your publications
When you
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apply for research funding
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apply for a job
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Problem: Name Variations
Michael Wolfgang Eisele
Michael W. Eisele --- 4 Articles
M. W. Eisele --- 2 Articles
Michael Eisele --- 1 Article
M. Eisele --- 1 Article
Mike Eisele --- 1 Article
Mike W. Eisele --- 1 Article
Problem: Name Changes
Karin Kowalski
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Problem: Names with diacritical marks
Michael Müller
Michael Müller
Michael Muller
Michael Mueller
Michael M&uller
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The Result
It can be next to impossible to find all the papers
written by a given scientific author.
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Exercise
Do a Search for your Name in Scopus (
www.scopus.com
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Do you have a Doppelgänger?
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Are all your publication in 1 author record set?
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How many authors with a similar name have publications
in the same subject area?
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General Advice
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Use the same variation of your name consistently.
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Use a standard version of your institutional affiliation.
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Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and
Technology (Eawag)
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Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science
and Technology (Empa)
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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and
Landscape Research (WSL)
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Solution: Unique Author Identifiers
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Researcher ID
(Web of Science)
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Scopus Author Identifier
(Scopus)
More visible in
WoS
with a
Researcher ID
1. Go to
Researcher ID
, sign up
and complete your profile.
2. Add some publications if you
have a few listed in Web of
Science and preview the
public version of your profile.
3. If you already have an ORCID
you can link Researcher ID to
that.
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More visible in
Scopus
by checking your
Scopus Author ID
1. Go to
Scopus
and use the
author search tab to search
for your name.
2. Check if all publications
assigned to you are correct
and if there are no variants of
your name that are not yet
grouped to your main entry.
3. If there are ungrouped name
variants with your publications
send Scopus feedback by
checking name variants and
clicking
request to merge
authors.
More visible in
Google Scholar
with an Author Profile
More info:
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New
: ORCID = Open Researcher & Contributer ID
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Central registry of persistent,
unique and open identifiers
for active researchers
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16-digit number,
e.g.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5109-3700
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Embedded within research
workflows (institutions,
funders, publishers)
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http://orcid.org/
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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0068-716X
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DOI + ORCID: The reference of the future?
Daniels, C.
0000-0203-7899-1322
, 2014. Unintended
consequences of a diet based on insects.
Science
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360, 1380-1385.
10.1126/science.2134584
DOI links to published work
ORCID links to author(s)
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Thank you!
Questions?
Dr. Jochen H. Bihn
ORCID:
0000-0002-6717-6786
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